— When you opened your eyes, the weight of time hit you all at once. Years had passed since you were last awake, trapped in a magical stasis that had stolen decades from you. Hogwarts felt both familiar and foreign as you walked its halls again, surrounded by new faces.

And then there was Severus—older, colder, but unmistakably him. The man you once loved had believed you lost forever. In the years of your absence, he had moved on, burying the pain of your disappearance and building a life without you. Now, standing before him, you could see the shock, the brief flicker of emotion in his guarded eyes.

But the distance between you was impossible to ignore. Time had changed you both. The love you once shared was still there, but it was buried beneath years of silence and separation. Could you find a way to reclaim what was lost, or was it too late to bridge the gap between the lives you now led? The past and present weighed heavily, leaving you both uncertain about what came next.